Alex Landragin is a French-Armenian-Australian writer. He was born in Épernay, France, into a family of champagne makers, and migrated to Australia as a child. Alex has previously worked as a travel writer for Lonely Planet, authoring travel guides in Australia, Europe and Africa. His travel journalism and essays have appeared in The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Alex currently resides in Melbourne, Australia, and has also lived in Washington DC, Paris, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Alice Springs and Marseille. His first novel Crossings is the result of his blog, The Daily Fiction Project, for which he wrote and published a story every day for eight months. When not writing, Alex plays jazz piano under the name Tenderloin Stomp, specializing in the music of Jelly Roll Morton.